Anna: Letters of a St Simons Island Plantation Mistress, 1817-1859 by Pavich-Lindsay, Melanie
Anna: Letters of a St Simons Island Plantation Mistress, 1817-1859 by Pavich-Lindsay, Melanie

Anna: Letters of a St Simons Island Plantation Mistress, 1817-1859

As the wife of a frequently absent slaveholder and public figure, Anna Matilda Page King (1798-1859) was...
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Author: Melanie Pavich-Lindsay
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Anna: Letters of a St Simons Island Plantation Mistress, 1817-1859 by Pavich-Lindsay, Melanie

Anna: Letters of a St Simons Island Plantation Mistress, 1817-1859

$196.88
Anna: Letters of a St Simons Island Plantation Mistress, 1817-1859 by Pavich-Lindsay, Melanie

Anna: Letters of a St Simons Island Plantation Mistress, 1817-1859

$196.88
Author: Melanie Pavich-Lindsay
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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As the wife of a frequently absent slaveholder and public figure, Anna Matilda Page King (1798-1859) was the de facto head of their Sea Island plantation. This volume collects more than 150 letters to her husband, children, parents, and others. Conveying the substance of everyday life as they chronicle King's ongoing struggles to put food on the table, nurse her "family black and white," and keep faith with a disappointing husband, the letters offer an absorbing firsthand account of antebellum coastal Georgia life.

Anna Matilda Page was reared with the expectation that she would marry a planter, have children, and tend to her family's domestic affairs. Untypically, she was also schooled by her father in all aspects of plantation management, from seed cultivation to building construction. That grounding would serve her well. By 1842 her husband's properties were seized, owing to debts amassed from crop failures, economic downturns, and extensive investments in land, enslaved workers, and the development of the nearby port town of Brunswick. Anna and her family were sustained, however, by Retreat, the St. Simons Island property left to her in trust by her father. With the labor of fifty bondpeople and "their increase" she was to strive, with little aid from her husband, to keep the plantation solvent.

A valuable record of King's many roles, from accountant to mother, from doctor to horticulturist, the letters also reveal much about her relationship with, and attitudes toward, her enslaved workers. Historians have yet to fully understand the lives of plantation mistresses left on their own by husbands pursuing political and other professional careers. Anna Matilda Page King's letters give us insight into one such woman who reluctantly entered, but nonetheless excelled in, the male domains of business and agriculture.

Author: Melanie Pavich-Lindsay, Anna Matilda King
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 11/18/2002
Pages: 492
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.88lbs
Size: 9.38h x 6.48w x 1.43d
ISBN: 9780820323329

About the Author
MELANIE PAVICH is an assistant professor of interdisciplinary and historical studies in the College of Continuing and Professional Studies, Mercer University.
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